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<span class=large>THE PROVERBS</span>
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CHAPTER 2
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The Lord giveth wisdom, knowledge, and understanding—Walk in the way of good men.
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My</span> son, if thou wilt receive my words, and <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/2/1a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR treasure; Prov. 4: 21.">hide</a> my commandments with thee;
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So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, <i>and</i> apply thine <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/2/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 16: 10; 3 Ne. 19: 33.">heart</a> to understanding;
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Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, <i>and</i> liftest up thy voice for understanding;
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If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as <i>for</i> hid treasures;
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Then shalt thou understand the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/2/5a" mark="a" type="A" title="Alma 36: 7.">fear</a> of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, and find the <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/2/5b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Knowledge.">knowledge</a> of God.
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For the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> giveth <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/2/6a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG God, Wisdom of; TG Wisdom.">wisdom</a>: out of his mouth <i>cometh</i> knowledge and <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/2/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Understanding.">understanding</a>.
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He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: <i>he is</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/2/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 91: 4.">buckler</a> to them that <sup>b</sup><a href="prov/2/7b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Walking with God.">walk</a> uprightly.
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He keepeth the paths of judgment, and preserveth the way of his saints.
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Then shalt thou <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/2/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Ne. 28: 30.">understand</a> righteousness, and judgment, and equity; <i>yea,</i> every good path.
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&#182; When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
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<sup>a</sup><a href="prov/2/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Rashness.">Discretion</a> shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
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To deliver thee from the way of the evil <i>man,</i> from the man that speaketh froward things;
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Who leave the paths of uprightness, to <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/2/13a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Walking in Darkness.">walk</a> in the ways of darkness;
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Who rejoice to do evil, <i>and</i> delight in the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/2/14a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR perverseness.">frowardness</a> of the wicked;
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Whose ways <i>are</i> crooked, and <i>they</i> froward in their paths:
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To deliver thee from the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/2/16a" mark="a" type="G" title="OR alien woman; unchaste women were often so called; Prov. 5: 3 (3, 20); TG Adultery.">strange</a> woman, <i>even</i> from the stranger <i>which </i>flattereth with her words;
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Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God.
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For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead.
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None that go unto her <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/2/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Eccl. 7: 26.">return</a> again, neither take they hold of the paths of life.
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That thou mayest walk in the way of good <i>men,</i> and keep the paths of the righteous.
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For the <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/2/21a" mark="a" type="A" title="Prov. 10: 30.">upright</a> shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
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But the wicked shall be <sup>a</sup><a href="prov/2/22a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ps. 52: 5.">cut</a> off from the earth, and the transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
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